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Zyxt is a graphic design studio and independent publisher working on both commissioned and self-initiated projects. We work on art direction, visual identities, publishing and online projects, primarily within the contemporary arts and culture sector.

Founded by Masaki Miwa and Ying Tong Tan upon graduating from Central Saint Martins as a progressive and inquisitive based practice that seeks to form partnerships with artists, designers, curators, publishers, cultural organisations and institutions. Currently physically based in UK and France while working internationally and virtually.

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Art Direction | Website

Kevin Kloecker

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Kevin Kloecker

Kevin Kloecker is a video commissioner that oversees the creation process of video and film works from beginning to end that centres around youth and music culture, working alongside international talents such as Travis Scott, Jay-Z, Troye Sivan, Migos, Lil Yachty and A$AP Mob among others.

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Cover Image: Still Image from Day Wave, Something Here, directed by Laura-Lynn Petrick

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Identity | Art Direction | Website

X

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X

X is an online platform that embraces open virtual space as a contemporary setting to offer perspectives, commentaries and references focusing on art in Singapore – with each issue offering raw and unfiltered writings, hyperlinks, interviews and playlists.

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Typeface

Vetemon

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Vetemon

If I had to explain very simply, I study how people came to be.That could explain why I happen to be in Sinnoh.In Sinnoh, there is a myth on how the world came into existence.Investigating that myth may give me insight on the emergence of people.I found something very interesting soon after arrival.You may have it, if you’d like.

I’m told that Plate was created at the same time as Sinnoh.The plate I found bears this inscription.“The rightful bearer of a Plate draws from the Plate it holds”The rightful bearer, I think, may point to the shaper of this world.Oh, by the way, I’m only interested in the words and thoughts left behind. Physical artifacts like that Plate don’t interest me once I’ve read them.I hope we meet again somewhere.

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Publication | Poster | Online Collateral

BUT NOW SPACE WAS PART OF THE OBJECT¹

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BUT NOW SPACE WAS PART OF THE OBJECT¹

BUT NOW SPACE WAS PART OF THE OBJECT¹ is an inquiry into whether or not a typeface can be absent in its own type specimen. Negative space becomes positive space, secondary becomes primary, reference becomes content. False protagonist Booq Alt delivers the performance of Booq—a typeface whose identity can only be imagined through the interplay of transcribed lectures by John Freeman, Esa Matinvesi and Krister Olsson from Booksfromthefuture Summer School 2015 and a pool of public domain images.

A publication by Masaki Miwa and Ying Tong Tan, published in parallel with The Multiple Lives of a Blank Book (Booksfromthefuture, 2015).

Featured on Books From The Future’s experimentally collaborative and investigative publishing, It’s Nice That, 2017.

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Typeface

Metaphon

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Metaphon

Metaphon is a typeface created using Metaflop, an open source web application which allows users to create and customise a font within a set of parameters.

Metaphon was designed for use in BUT NOW SPACE WAS PART OF THE OBJECT¹, acting as an in-between agent for the contrasting typefaces used in the publication – the constrained rigidity of Booq and Booq Alt against the classical engraving style of Daubenton (designed by Olivier Dolbeau).

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Typeface | Contribution

Booq Alt

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Booq Alt

Booq Alt is a spin/evolution of the typeface Booq. Similar in its dimensions and modular components designed within the structural limitations set by Booq’s G.D.A.A Manifesto. It is based on creating a range of alternate glyphs that pretends to act as a compilation of various individual spinoffs – a visualisation of the usage and the spread of the manifesto resulting in a pool of alternate forms.

Booq Alt’s form stems from the idea of one’s innate reluctance to conform (in this case to the limitations set by the manifesto), giving birth to awkward shapes, kinks, oddities, and distortions – finding balance amongst this architectonic frustration while sticking within the manifesto’s rules.

It is a celebration of experimentation, beauty in deformities, and of alternate forms created through the breaking and re-making of a system. To celebrate this unexpectedness in experimentation, the typeface is also programmed to allow randomisation of its alternate glyphs during the act of typing.

Weights include Regular and Bold.

Featured in The Digital Revolution as a catalyst for design plagiarism, and how this impacts designer engagement in the practice of type design, published by Joey Lim, 2016.

Featured in The Multiple Lives of a Blank Book, published by Booksfromthefuture, ISBN 978-0-9573509-3-9, 2015.

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Typeface | Contribution

Booq

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Booq

G.D.A.A (Graphic Designer as Architect) was established in 2015. Born from Graphic Design’s admiration towards Architecture’s role in possessing socio-cultural status, historical significance, and the creation of ‘works of art’. G.D.A.A aims to achieve equal or greater status for the Graphic Design discipline. This is attained by creating works that incorporate architectural methodologies into graphic design practice — by following a site-specific manifesto, from which Booq was created.

Booq is a typeface consisting of interlocking components based on the architectural structure of the blank book provided by Booksfromthefuture as part of a commissioned contribution to their Summer School 2015. Booq is built upon a set of rules — only utilising the cover, spine, spread, arc, and manipulating the paper of the book as the dimensional structure to construct a typeface.

Available in Regular.

Booq type specimen, BUT NOW SPACE WAS PART OF THE OBJECT¹, published by Zyxt and co-published by Booksfromthefuture, ISBN 978-1-326-40233-4, 2015.

Featured in The Digital Revolution as a catalyst for design plagiarism, and how this impacts designer engagement in the practice of type design, Joey Lim, 2016.

Featured in The Multiple Lives of a Blank Book, Booksfromthefuture, 2015.

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Zyxt is a graphic design studio and independent publisher working on both commissioned and self-initiated projects. We work on art direction, visual identities, publishing and online projects, primarily within the contemporary arts and culture sector.

Founded by Masaki Miwa and Ying Tong Tan upon graduating from Central Saint Martins as a progressive and inquisitive based practice that seeks to form partnerships with artists, designers, curators, publishers, cultural organisations and institutions. Currently physically based in UK and France while working internationally and virtually.